Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.
Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
Better to be safe than sorry.
To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.